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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Kdb vs. Kinetica vs. searchxml vs. TerarkDB

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.High performance Time Series DBMSFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.69
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#229  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#397  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score0.06
Rank#377  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websitekx.comwww.kinetica.comwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productsgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationcode.kx.comdocs.kinetica.comwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcKineticainformationpartners gmbhByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20082000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003201220152016
Current release7.2.4, September 20123.6, May 20187.1, August 20211.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercialcommercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++qC, C++C++C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxWindows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language (q)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsuser defined functionsyes infoon the application serverno
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infowith viewsyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonomultiple readers, single writerno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPrights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and roles on table levelDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesno
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Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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